25 Nano Ambientium, Lumen by Ray Teng Pai and TUT Team

25 Nano Ambientium, Lumen by Ray Teng Pai and TUT Team is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum in Designatio Luminarium Competition Category.

ArgentumLuminaria· 2020

25 Nano Ambientium, Lumen

by Ray Teng Pai and TUT Team

Client: Tainan University of Technology/ Product Design Department

Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum Winner in Luminaria Category

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The Design

About 25 Nano Ambientium, Lumen

XXV Nano levi sub artis specie usque est, ut repraesentaret unum diem durantia et permanentis, nativitatis et mortis. Working cum Spring lacus Speculum Industrial CO., LTD, quorum visus in speculo redivivus est a systematica loop ad aedificationem sustineri futurum, secundum quod chose XXV Nano bulla fragile, aliter ac solidae in media speculum in communem ideam. Instrumenti lumen vitae cursus splenduerit bulla exstantes velut coloribus umbras arcu mauris dreamy aer circa creando user.

The Recognition

About the Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum

25 Nano Ambientium, Lumen victor est Praemii A' Design Award Argenteum, honoris eximie amplissimi formis summi generis, pulchris et conspicuis dati. Victores Argenti opera valde splendida et creandi ingenio praedita sunt, quae praestantem peritiam, talentum et acumen auctorum suorum ostendunt. Exspectatur 25 Nano Ambientium, Lumen opus mirabile, exemplare, valde professionale et penitus novum fore. Haec forma Argento victa inventum notabile et admiratum est, quod ad fines artis, scientiae, formandi rationis et technologiae promovendos confert. 25 Nano Ambientium, Lumen creatio est, quam multi invident, quae cupiditates excitat, sensus bonos affert et admirationem miraculumque movet.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: 25 Nano is an artistic light instrument to represent ephemeral and permanence, birth and death. Working with Spring Pool Glass Industrial CO., LTD, whose vision is building a systematic glass recycle loop for a sustainable future, 25 Nano chose the relatively fragile bubble as a medium in contrast with solid glass to embody the idea. In the instrument, light shimmers through life cycles of the bubble, projecting rainbow-like color and shadows to the environment, creating a dreamy atmosphere around the user.
Dimensions & Packaging: Ø255*216mm
Tags: sustainable, bubble , glass , aluminum , light
Production Technology: Blown glass made from recyclable glass sand by Spring Pool Glass Industrial CO., LTD.
Recycled aluminum.
CNC machining.
Design Challenge: Putting light and a pump motor into one compact body. Studying the right portion of soup solution, the right timing and quantity to make bubbles for the optimized effect. Because of the innovative integration, design team made several prototype models to achieve the final result. In order to mass manufacture the design, there are a lot back and forth communication between design team and the glass company to make the blown glass mold.
Research: Using Design Sketch, Trial and Error Method to approach the initial idea, including the aid of the Computer Drawings and 3D printing prototypes. Communication with vendors and manufacturers back and forth to refine the design. Testing glass blown technique restrictions with or with out the mold, we finalize the design with mold for medium to mass production to ensure the cost and the production quality.
Inspiration: When the growing bubble hits the critical point of 25 nanometers film thickness, it breaks. 25 Nano compares the recycling and the reproduction of glass poetically with the constant recycling and rebirth of bubbles. The work uses several contrasts, such as light and shadow, solid and fragile, temporary and permanent, to express the relativity of things; the end is the beginning of new opportunity.
Project Duration: The project initiated in June 2019, and exhibited in March 2020 in Tainan. Design development duration for 10 month.
Operation Flow: Touch the metal sensor on top of the glass shade to turn on the light. The bubble starts to grow in rhythm, and the refractions of light change accordingly.
Team Members: CHEN,CHING-HVA
LU,CHENG- YAN
CAI,ZHI-JIE
CHEN,YU- RONG
PAI, RAY-TENG